SUMMARY
Dreamy Dud steals a man's pipe because he is fascinated with smoking and blowing smoke rings. He smokes the pipe and the smoke turns into a ghost and carries him up to the moon and leaves him. Dud falls off the moon and down to earth. He wakes up on the floor of his room and resolves never to smoke.

These two variants of Wallace Carlsons "Dreamy Dud," a boy with an overactive fantasy life and a down-to-earth dog, reveal how animation history does not always parallel artistic progress. The 1915 film from the Essanay Studio has a simpler line-drawing method but a sharper wit, and is indebted in style and content to Winsor McCays dreamy hero, "Little Nemo." The later version, from Carlsons 1919-20 Us Fellers series, is more complicated but less comic, relying on the elaborate backgrounds available through the Bray Studios patents.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : Essanay Film Manufacturing Co., [1915].

NOTES
Copyright: Essanay Film Mfg. Co.; 22Jun15; MP356.

Digital file includes a piano score composed and performed by Philip Carli.

SUBJECTS
Boys--United States--Drama.
Smoking--United States--Drama.
Dreams--United States--Drama.
Tobacco pipes--United States--Drama.
Moon--Drama.
Ghosts--Drama.
Comedy--Animation--Short.

DIGITAL ID
animp 4067 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/animp.4067 (less info)